YOUR 2007 VANDERBILT COMMODORES!

Eight home games.

Seventeen Returning Starters.

2006’s second-leading quarterback, Chris Nickson. (As a redshirt sophomore, Nickson threw for 2,085 yards, rushed for 694, and had 24 total touchdowns.)

All-American Receiver, Earl Bennett.

More Depth than ever before in our modern football history.

Following Vandy’s best ever year in overall athletics, 7 teams in the top-25 in Spring 2007 and 10 teams in NCAA national tournaments. (We're learning how to win.)

Which all beg the question, can Vanderbilt win six games and go to the first bowl game since 1982?


Last year Vandy lost to Alabama by 3 in Tuscaloosa, Arkansas by 2, Florida by 6 and Ole Miss by 7. Winning two more games this year is reasonable.

I am cautiously optimistic and hope we have a chance to win, count ‘em, seven games:

Richmond: win.

Alabama: loss (Grudgingly. Y'all will behold the barbaric yawlp if we experience any cosmic justice in this game. If it's not this year, then we'll have to wait for 4 more seasons before Saban abandons another team. I am preaching the next day and may just have to have an alternate sermon prepared.)

Ole Miss: win.

Eastern Michigan: win.

At Auburn: loss.

Georgia: loss. (Not so fast, my friend! We beat UGA last year in Athens, and we have them at home this season. Will they be determined not us lose to us twice? Yes. Do we have the capacity to beat overrated and underperforming Stafford, et al? Yep.)

At South Carolina: win. (This is my closest call, because Spurrier would suit up before he loses to Vandy. Even so, we were strongest on the road last year, and USC is suffering awful distractions despite the coach’s best efforts to raise expectations.)

Miami (Ohio): win.

At Florida: loss.

Kentucky: win. (We are matched well by UK and will be well motivated not to lose to an equally good team after some confidence-inspiring upsets. Losing to Florida is not discouraging, and the team will not overlook such an opportune win to lock up a bowl invitation.)

Tennessee: loss.

Wake Forest: win. (Okay, probably it will come down to the last minute of the last game, but I believe.)

Go Commodores!

Nothing to see here (a.k.a. Kile's Monday rant)

I don't have a lot of fancy schmancy links to bible verses and news stories today. I just have a simple observation. I have long understood that Christians are supposed to rejoice when we suffer for the cause of Christ or suffer simply for being a Christian. Why is it then, that now that our culture often times goes so far afield and oftentimes openly villifies believers that Christians so often come off as whiners. In other words, why do we become so indignant when things don't go our way. We rant and rave about America being a Christian nation and being founded on Christian values and it so often sounds like we are demanding that our culture cater to us. I guess it's just much easier to legislate morality rather than trying to change the world by exemplifying Christ. After all it seems that we have failed miserably at letting people know that we are His by our love. Now we let people know that we are His by our voting block.

JTB

The other day, our two-and-a-half year old daughter, B, was playing with K, our fourteen-month old daughter, in their bedroom. They were laughing, dancing and running around, like little girls will do. Then, K started complaining and protesting while B pulled and prodded on her.

Momma responded to K’s cries and B’s insistence, to find B with her arm around K’s shoulders. B was pulling and tugging K, trying to get her up on the toddler bed.

Momma said, “What are you doing? Don’t pull on K like that!.”

B replied, “I’m John the Baptist!”

“What?”

“I’m pretend John the Baptist, and K is Jesus, and we’re going to the water!”


Prophecy is a hard way to make a living, B, really hard.